Strus: Libraries and tools for building a full-text search engine
project-strus.net
project-strus.net
I think this would have kicked into over drive, but I need Latin, Greek, German, Danish support for the searches which unicode would be perfect but these plain text files were written in ascii. To bad I am not in the field anymore nor a System's Librarian. Would have sunk a lot of time into this.
What would be cool is to read about the lessons-learned in building this, as that would be useful whether or not people actually want to install Strus.
This misses community, is fixing a pain not related to the actual project, and is deliberately simpler than the current baseline for comparisons for search engines. Even Elasticsearch that wants to present itself as different as possible from Solr is based on the same Lucene core.
Hence, for me at least, the true value would be in the lessons learnt. But perhaps, that's just me.